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- Prudes at Dinner, Gluttons in Bed - February 26, 2009
- Imagine, says Eberstadt, a 30-year-old Betty in 1958, and her 30-year-old granddaughter Jennifer today. Betty's kitchen is replete with things -- red meat, dairy...
- Sen. Feingold's Constitution - February 22, 2009
- The Framers established election of senators by state legislators, under which system the nation got the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun)...
- Stimulating Cynicism - February 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- FDR's analogies, like his policies, are being recycled. As money gushes from Washington like water from a fire hose, consider how bailout promiscuity...
- Apocalypse Now? Highly Unlikely - February 15, 2009
- No more lettuce for Los Angeles? Chu likes predictions, so here is another: Nine decades hence, our great-great-grandchildren will add the disappearance of...
- Runaway Stimulus - February 12, 2009
- At Yale's 1962 commencement, President John Kennedy expressed Washington's recurring confidence in the ability to supplant politics with expertise. As is...
- How Congress Trumps Darwin - February 8, 2009
- This Thursday, the 200th anniversary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, remember that Lincoln mattered more. Without Darwin, other scientists...
- How Congress Is Creating the 51st State* - February 5, 2009
- The D.C. House Voting Rights Act will give the District a full voting member in the House of Representatives. The problem is, or should be, that although the...
- Strange Stimulus Legislation - Newsweek - February 2, 2009
- The Recidivist Congress - February 1, 2009
- "Astonishing," says Cooper of the new president's avowed determination to confront the crisis. Leadership, says Cooper, who has seen precious little of it...
- Economic Stimulus or Opportunism? - January 29, 2009
- Economic policymaking in turbulent times is a science of single instances, meaning no science at all. When economic theories matter most -- when the economy is in...
- Grand, Yes. Bargain, No. - January 25, 2009
- By a vote of 289-139, with 40 Republicans joining the majority, the House, in the process of reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, doubled...
- Summoning the U.S. Up from Childishness - January 20, 2009
- "The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a...
- Revise the Voting Rights Act - January 19, 2009
- Now, however, a Texas utility district that did not exist until 1986 and which has never had a voting-related complaint, says that the bailout provision has been...
- Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges - January 15, 2009
- Brown's audacious argument is a viscous soup of natural-law and natural- rights philosophizing, utterly untethered from case law. It is designed to effect a...
- Common Sense is No More - January 11, 2009
- Someone hurt while running at recess might sue the school district for inadequate supervision of the runner, as Broward County knows: It settled 189 playground...
- End Run On the Treasury - January 8, 2009
- Washington sternly said that it would allow GMAC to become a bank holding company only if GMAC managed to increase its capital to $30 billion. When GMAC fell far...
- The Toll of a Rights 'Victory' - January 4, 2009
- Furthermore, two Senate sponsors of the act insisted that it did not require "that employers abandon bona fide qualification tests where, because of differences in...
- Health Care Costs Keep Growing and Growing - January 1, 2009
- When Medicare was created in 1965, America's median age was 28.4; now it is 36.6. The elderly are more numerous and medicine is more broadly competent than was then...
- Return of the Great Society? - December 28, 2008
- Or not. In an interview with Business Week, Rep. Barney Frank, the effervescent Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the Financial Services Committee, was asked,...
- Remembering What Counts - December 26, 2008
- So as Washington's dreariest year in decades sags to an end -- a year in which trillion-dollar improvisations that will debase the dollar have been bracketed by a...
- 2008: Rod, Eliot, Yuck - Newsweek - December 23, 2008
- Bush Stretches Executive Powers Again - December 21, 2008
- Friday the president gave the two automakers access to money Congress explicitly did not authorize. More money -- up to $17.4 billion -- than had been debated,...
- Seeking a Ford in Our Future - December 18, 2008
- Twenty-seven months ago, Mulally, who probably thought he had seen the worst that events could throw at his business career, came to Ford from Boeing. There, when...
- New York's Battle of the Billionaires - December 14, 2008
- Forbes says Catsimatidis' $2.1 billion net worth makes him the 220th richest American. Such is life in the simmering melting pot: Any child can grow up to be a...
- Steady Hand at Defense - December 11, 2008
- "I actually think," Gates says, "there is a reasonable chance" some combination of diplomatic and economic carrots and sticks can deter Iran, with its ramshackle...
- Fairness Doctrine Fouls Out - December 7, 2008
- Until the Reagan administration extinguished it, the doctrine required broadcasters to devote reasonable time to fairly presenting all sides of any controversial...
- Markets, Not Economists, Will Help the Economy - December 4, 2008
- In recent years, in normal conditions, the economy has "lost" tens of millions of jobs through capitalism's "creative destruction" (Joseph Schumpeter's phrase). It...
- New New Deal Won't Help the Economy - November 30, 2008
- "I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started," lamented Henry Morgenthau, FDR's Treasury secretary....
- Free Ride for the Campus Left - November 27, 2008
- A former dean, and currently law professor at Florida International University, Fish is an intellectual provocateur with a taste for safe targets. While arguing...
- When Bureaucrats Become Legislators - Newsweek - November 24, 2008
- Reinventing the Second Amendment - November 23, 2008
- The Second Amendment says: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be...
- In Detroit, Failure's a Done Deal - November 18, 2008
- The answer? Do nothing that will delay bankrupt companies from filing for bankruptcy protection, so that improvident labor contracts can be unraveled, allowing the...
- Rent-Seekers Run Amuck - November 16, 2008
- The seepage of government into everywhere is, we are assured, to be temporary and nonpolitical. Well. Probably as temporary as New York City's rent controls,...
- McConnell a Man of the Senate - November 13, 2008
- That disability is, however, a strength because it precludes an occupational hazard of senators -- presidential ambition. Besides, McConnell, 66, is completely a...
- Obama and the Founders' Intent - Newsweek - November 11, 2008
- Irony Abounds - November 9, 2008
- Another paradox: More than any presidency since Lincoln's, Bush's has been defined by a single subject, a war. But since the middle of September, in this presidency's...
- What Would Goldwater Do? - November 6, 2008
- Although John McCain's loss was not as numerically stunning as the 1964 defeat of Barry Goldwater, who won 16 fewer states and 122 fewer electoral votes than McCain...
- A Seismic Election Day - November 2, 2008
- The House of Representatives currently has 235 Democrats and 199 Republicans; the Senate has 51 Democrats (including two independents who caucus with the Democrats)...
- Careless with the Constitution - October 30, 2008
- She may have been tailoring her narrative to her audience of third-graders, who do not know that vice presidents have no constitutional function in the Senate other...
- The Good News Inside the Bad - Newsweek - October 28, 2008